Returners Programme
FDM Group United Kingdom
FDM's year-round returner route in the UK: experienced professionals after a 12-month-plus break retrain (business, technical or AWS pathway) and then work full-time on client assignments in a new permanent role with coaching and mentoring.
Free to start · no account needed
Get a returner résumé, a cover letter and a career-break note for this programme, drafted from your own résumé in about two minutes.
You look at it first. Nothing is submitted without your tap.
About
Also: upskilling course: 7-week business, 14-week technical or 10-week AWS Cloud Practitioner pathway; client assignments in a new permanent role; coaching and mentoring; industry-recognised qualifications.
Who can apply: Five years of relevant commercial experience and a career break of at least 12 months (no upper limit); available to work full-time in a new permanent role; course pages ask returners to commit to working with FDM for two years after training. The technical course needs 3+ years of software engineering experience.
Free to apply.
Rolling: applications open year-round with rolling start dates; Open Mornings for returners are held regularly. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
How to apply: through the organiser's own application portal (you need an account there).
What to prepare: cv, online application.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-31): “applications to our Returner Programme are open year-round”
Who can apply
- Open to working professionals, people in a career transition
- Five years of relevant commercial experience and a career break of at least 12 months (no upper limit); available to work full-time in a new permanent role; course pages ask returners to commit to working with FDM for two years after training. The technical course needs 3+ years of software engineering experience.
What you will need
- Academic CVUpload yours, or let Onward Scout draft one from your profile for you to edit.
- Application form answersOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (own portal), which needs an account in your name.
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
Get a returner résumé, a cover letter and a career-break note for this programme, drafted from your own résumé in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to FDM Group without your tap.
Nothing is submitted without your tap. Logins, CAPTCHAs, payments and interviews stay with you.